Toshack calls on hat-trick prodigy Davies to replace Bellamy

Craig Davies is looking for a new club after a difficult six months with Verona in Italy but his hat-trick for Wales Under-21 in the 5-1 victory over Estonia on Wednesday may have earned him a full debut for the senior side in tomorrow's friendly against the World Cup qualifiers Trinidad & Tobago in Graz.

His goals helped Brian Flynn's side qualify for next season's Uefa Under-21 Championship with their best result for 11 years and impressed the Wales manager John Toshack, who was at the squad's base in San Sebastián but was kept informed of events at the Racecourse Ground by telephone.

When Davies scored his third goal Toshack told Flynn to substitute the 20-year-old striker immediately to protect him for tomorrow's friendly. With Ryan Giggs and Craig Bellamy missing the Austria trip and Robert Earnshaw injured in training, Davies may find himself making his full debut rather than just warming the bench.

He has two previous substitute appearances for Wales but the hat-trick has reinforced the belief Toshack has in the former Manchester City youngster. And it will give Davies - sold to Verona by Oxford in January - a bright end to a worrying campaign. He has struggled to settle in Italy and Verona plan to loan him back to a club in Britain.

"I was delighted with the hat-trick. It has been a difficult time for me of late and I am now back in the UK looking for a loan move for next season," he said. "I haven't actually been released by Verona; they have another three years on my contract and they haven't given up on me. But I have found it very hard to settle in Italy. I have been out there on my own and I don't speak the language.

"Verona want me to come back and have a year on loan somewhere and then they will look at the situation again when I have a bit more experience. I only went there in January and they paid money. I hope to sort things out but I want a loan move back home now."

Davies has had a chequered career, being released by Manchester City and then having to deal with family problems back home in Birmingham before Oxford sold him for £150,000.

His Wales career has been equally fraught. Injuries, unavailability and some disappointing Under-21 appearances have left Toshack exasperated but the manager still believes there is talent worth being patient for.

"I want to come back home for now. There are a couple of clubs interested but I want to be here now," Davies said. "Very few people go to play abroad at my age; I am only just 20. It has been difficult and I need to get more experience here before I do anything else.

"I want to sort something out in the next couple of weeks, and scoring a hat-trick for the Under-21s hopefully has helped. But there were other players helping me. Ramon Calliste was outstanding, David Edwards did very well in midfield and that was as good a performance from a Wales Under-21s team that I have been involved in.

"Joining up again with the senior squad for Saturday is a massive honour for me. I have had a couple of substitute appearances and they were very proud moments for me and my family.

"John Toshack has just told me to keep doing the simple things, keep my head right and be focused on football. That's what I have been trying to do."

Sir Bobby Robson has approved of Steve McClaren's desire to have Terry Venables as an adviser on his England backroom team. McClaren has reportedly identified the former England coach as the man he would like working alongside him when he takes over the national team after the World Cup.

Robson, a predecessor to Venables as England manager, has for the past four months been working as international football consultant with the Republic of Ireland, helping the inexperienced Steve Staunton to settle into his role as coach. The 73-year-old, who is recovering from surgery to remove a malignant melanoma from his lung, said of McClaren and Venables: "It's up to them what they want to do, but it can work.

"As for myself and Stan [Staunton], we both talk to the players and I have to say that [the coach] Kevin MacDonald is also good. He speaks very well to them. He is not afraid.

"What we don't want to do is confuse them. It's no good me saying one thing, Stan another and Kevin something else. The three of us need to pool our thoughts so we sing off the same hymn sheet and say the same things to the players. So if I think the right-back should attack more than he is doing in a game, then I want Stan to say 'Yes, do what Bobby is saying'.

"It's about spending more time together. It's very important before a match, again at half-time and full-time, that the three of us get together so we know what salient points to make, and we will do that.

"I'm not saying we're at cross purposes now. We've not said anything to the players that might confuse them, but we just need more time. Certainly at half-time [in the 1-0 defeat to Chile] we were in agreement when it came to what we were telling the players."

Although not at Staunton's side as much as he would have liked in recent weeks, Robson hopes that will change after the summer. "Stan knows he is inexperienced. A few months ago he had never prepared international teams, never given team talks, never given press conferences at this level. But he will learn and gain experience. In the meantime I hope to be around him so much that I get him through and help him."

Robson will watch Ireland's Euro 2008 qualifying opponents Germany and the Czech Republic at the World Cup.